Release Note

1. On Basic Module, we’ve enhanced the features as following:-

(a) Student Mgmt ~ > Guardian Information ~ > Guardian Personal Records ~ > Edit, the system is enhanced to allow form teacher / level teacher to edit own class student’s guardian profile information and the screen is amended to display guardian record listing page to filter by own class/level only. Please take note that, Teacher/Level Teacher is not allow to create guardian profile.

(b) Student Mgmt ~ > Testimonial/Leaving Certificate ~ > Preview Template & Printing, we’d customized the testimonial format 2 to print historical class instead of current attended class on certificate when selecting from previous year student list.

(c) Enquiry Module ~ > Data Export ~ > Export Data to SMS Text Format, system is enhanced the staff access export features to restrict Staff Profile & Family Profile data export for teacher role. However form teacher shall be able to export own class student profile and guardian profile data export for current year class only. Then, level teacher is able to export own level student’s profile for current year level assigned ONLY

2. On Co – curriculum Assessment Module, we’ve enhanced the features as following:-

(a) Activity Record ~ > Activity Attendance, System is allow to record the back dated student co-curriculum activity attendance marking in previous year even when all the student has been rollover to the new academic year. Then we’d also build in validation control on co-curriculum activity attendance marking where activity whose has been submitted for assessment grading processing will not allowed to update the attendance record.

(b) Activity Record ~ > Student Activity ~ > By Student/Class ~ > Creation/Edit, System is enhanced to allow activity teacher-in-charge to alter/add previous year student co-curriculum activity record. On the student activity effective date range, teacher-in-charge can only create/edit/delete student activity record with effective date range under his/her guidance in the selected academic year. On the same time, system shall extract current year student list instead of previous year student list for student co-curriculum activity roll-over processing.

(c) General Paramter ~ > General Setting, this is an new option to exclude/include Tingkatan Peralihan from assessment CGPA computation. If the CGPA marks accumulation is selected as “Yes”, meaning CGPA marks accumulation should only count from Form One till Form Five / Form Six. On the other hand, if the CGPA marks accumulation is selected as “No”, meaning CGPA marks accumulation should count for the students’ whole schooling years attended including transition level. CGPA marks accumulated shall be printed in Assessment Summary Report.

3. On E – Attendance Module, we’ve enhanced the features as following:-

(a) Attendance Parameter -> General Setting, the system is enhanced to add staff late/absent reason approval option, School may choose “Yes/No” to enable the approval option at module general setting option for all the late/absent reasons as updated by staff concerned must be approved by School Principal or School Admin for monitoring purposes.

(b) Late/Absent Reason ~ > Staff Late/Absent Reason Approaval, Late/Absent Reason Approval process is built in for School Principal or Admin to approve all the  late/absent reason as updated by staff concerned for monitoring purposes.

4. Student Discipline Module ~ > Enquiry -> Student Discipline Listing -> Summary Listing, System enhanced Student Disciplinary Summary Listing Enquiry with additional display information of YTD Demerit and YTD Merit point.

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Release Note

1. On Basic Module, we’ve enhanced the features as following:-

(a)  Enquiry ~ > Attendance Enquiry ~ > Class Attendance Detail Listing, this enquiry shows report on student in a class with attendance Detail Listing.
(b)  Student Mgmt ~ > Testimonial/Leaving Cert ~ > Preview Template & Printing, the system is enhanced to extend principal name print area for student testimonial format 6 so that principal name will not wrap to second lines.

2. On Co – curriculum assessment module, we’ve enhanced the features as following:-

(a)  Enquiry ~ > Student Grade Analysis, this option is to provide a screen display student assessment grade analysis. The statistic count analysis by assessment grading table for academic level, co-curriculum activity and co-curriculum group.
(b)  Activity Record ~ > Activity Attendance, the system is enhanced to allow back-dated activity attendance marking for leaving student on activities held prior to student leaving date.
(c)  Activity Record ~ > Activity Attendance, this is to add new record filtering criteria of [Level] and [Class] on Student Activity Attendance Posting Screen.
(d)  Enquiry ~ > Student Activity Attendance ~ > Attendance History, this is to add new enquiry filtering criteria of [Class] and [Co-Curriculum Activity] on Student Attendance History Enquiry.
(e)  Activity Record ~> Activity Attendance, the system is enhanced to add student leaving school indicator icon on activity attendance input page (If the student has left school).
(f)  Activity Record ~ > Staff/Student ~ > Create, this is to group the co-curriculum drop down option list by student co-curriculum group on Staff / Student activity record creation page.
(g)  Assessment ~ > Co-Curriculum Marks Update, this is a new process to integrate with E-Report Card Module for student co-curriculum assessment GPA to be appeared in student’s report card as part of the fulfilment of student academic performance.
(h)  General Parameter -> General Setting, we’d provided a new setup option for school user to determine the maximum student bonus mark to be awarded during assessment grading.  School can choose to award only the bonus item with highest marks OR total marks from inputted bonus items OR a pre-set maximum mark from inputted bonus items.

3. On e – Report card module, we’ve enhanced the features as following:-

(a)  Enquiry ~ > Student Rank By Level, system is enhanced by not taking account for simulated generic average computation on student rank by level enquiry for student with AB (Absent) result status and setup [Input AB as mark, No average mark and rank for affected student].
(b)  Enquiry ~> Top Student Enquiry (Normal Exam), the system is enhanced to remove fail status control checking on Top Student and Subject Winner Award Listing Enquiry so that student with fail status can also be listed on best student award list.

4. On Student e – Attendance module, we’ve enhanced the features as following:-

(a)  Attendance Processing -> Process Later Comer -> Student, we’d incorporate student late comer processing on class replacement day.
(b)  Enquiry -> Student Attendance ~ > Student Late/Absent/Attendance Detail Listing, the system is enhanced to incorporate student late/absent enquiry on class replacement day.

5.  Library Mgmt ~ > General Setting, the system is enhance the auto call no convention rule with additional combination by Location or MARC21 input field.

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Release Note:

1.  On Basic Module, we’ve enhanced features as following:-
(a)  Student Mgmt Module ~ > Checklist By Student, The system is incorporate student payment record printing.  Payment item to be definable by school user.

(b)  Student Mgmt Module ~ > Student Medical Record, We’d provided new option to enter student general health and immunization record.  The entered information can be viewable under student personal record enquiry page. This function allows user to record student health history  including allergy and immunizations information.

(c)  Enquiry Module ~ > Attendance Enquiry -> Summary – Daily By Class, The system is enhanced to provide an option to print letter for student absent parent notification.

(d)  School Mgmt ~ > Facilities Mgmt, This is new feature on facilities booking and approval. Teachers are allowed to perform room booking online that will maximize the usage of available resources within the school by increasing efficiency while eliminating double bookings. All room bookings shall be submitted for approval by School Administrator and an approved booking is no longer allowed to be re-scheduled.

(e)  Timetable Mgmt ~ > Staff Substitution  ~ > Class Substitution, To ensure only teacher in the school at the time of class substitution listed on substitution teacher option. This amended feature is only applied to school with e-attendance module activated.

2. On E – Report Card Module, We’ve enhanced features as following:-
(a)  Exam Mgmt ~> Produce Class/Level Ranking, we’d resolved the incorrect class ranking for classes with ranking method by Subject Grade, i.e. student scores more A will be ranked first.

(b)  Head Count & Post Mortem Module, This is a new module release on Take-Off-Value (TOV), Expected-Target-Result (ETR), Operational-Target-Increment (OTI) processing. Headcount is prepared to set target for students individually as well as a group in a class and form/level to achieve in academic performance.

3. On Co cu Assessment Module, We’ve enhanced features as following:-
(a)  Forms & Report ~ > Activity Involvement Summary Report, we’d provided a new reporting option – Activity Involvement Summary Report: Listing of co-curriculum activity by member count and total involvement statistic count.

(b)  Student Position ~ > By Activity~ > Create, the system is enhanced toeExtend co-curriculum activity position count from maximum of 999 to 9999 students.

(c)  Enquiry ~ > Student Activity ~ > By Activity, provide display student leaving icon on student activity enquiry listing page.

(d) General Parameter ~ > General Setting, the system is enhanced to add option at general setting and enhance assessment grading process according to the setup.  Note that default rounding option = round down, therefore it’ll not affect existing school’s operation.Assessment Element Rounding Option:Generic Round / Round Up / Round Down. The default rounding option = Round down and the setting only apply to 4 weighted elements, namely, Attendance, position held, involvement & achievement.

(e) Enquiry ~ > Student Attendance Analysis ~ > Attendance Analysis, Provide a activity attendance analysis table and chart, allowed to print report of each category.

4. On E – Attendance Module, We’ve enhanced features as following:-
(a). Attendance Processing ~ > Latecomer Processing for staff, The system would enhanced the option to Do not show academic staff as “absent” status during school holiday period as defined in school calendar. The Academic staff will not be marked as “Absent” Status if the processing date falls outside the schooling periods as defined in each semester / school term under Basic ~ > Curriculum Management ~ > Academic Year option.
(b). Personal Administration ~ > Submit Leave Application, Staff leave management has been incorporated into e-Attendance Module as a newly enhanced feature. This feature enables various types of leaves such as Annual Leave, Maternity Leave, Compassionate Leave, Sick Leave-Government, Sick Leave-Private, Unpaid Leave and Unrecorded Leave to be easily managed by capturing staffs’ leave entitlements, requests, approval and balances.

(c). Parameter ~ > Leave Entitlement, Staffs’ leave entitlement records must be created first before the staff is eligible to apply leave. School Admin is required to record the staff leave entitlement for the following leave types:- 1. Annual Leave- 2. Sick Leave – Government- 3. Sick Leave – Private

(d). Personal Administration ~ > Submit Training Report, Staff training management has been incorporated into e-Attendance Module as a newly enhanced feature. Information on staff training, which includes staff’s submission of request, approval and training details such as organizer, location, duration and costs shall be under a workflow system with all the related data captured in the system.

(e). Enquiry ~>Staff Attendance ~> Staff Daily Transaction, incorporate print option on Staff Daily Transaction enquiry.

(f). Personal Administration ~ > Submit Official Duty Application, Staff on official duty has been incorporated into e-Attendance Module as a newly enhanced feature. Information on staff on official duty, which includes staff’s submission of request, approval and assigned duty details such as destination, start and end date, duration, purpose and costs shall be under a workflow system with all the related data captured in the system.

(g). Enquiry ~> Staff Attendance ~ > Attendance Analysis ~ > Staff Yearly Attendance Analysis/Staff Yearly Absent Analysis, User is able to inquire the percentage of staff present/absent, breakdown by month.

5. On Library Mgmt Module, We’ve enhanced features as following:-
(a). Bibliographic ~ > Creation – Beam Me Web Service, To improve the overall service, usability and reduce repetitive data entry in school, we have incorporated iSchool Beam-me Web services for library bibliographic record creation function.

(b). Circulation ~> Circulation, The Circulation function is enhanced to facilitate easier flow of borrowing / returning especially for those members who have not bring along library cards can still proceed with book borrowing or return via Advanced Search feature.

6. System Administration Module ~ > System Tools ~ > Module Transaction Statistic, Module transaction statistic monitoring option is used to analyze the module transaction statistic count by date. Any transaction conducted by the module using by school will increase the value to 1.

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